Until Scotland Abolishes its Monarchy…
On Coronation Day, and on the day of a repubican rally on Calton Hill, Reuben Duffy explains why a Scotland with
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Contents of Issue 133
A Radical Hearth – Editorial Lessons from Strike Season – Olivia Crook, Lara, Paula Dixon, Amber Ward Glimmers of a Resurgent
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Editorial: A Radical Hearth
Lift your eyes from the enchanting orb of party politics and government and you will see an unsettled Scotland. It is
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Music, Power and Love: Lessons from Strike Season
Olivia Crook, Lara, Paula Dixon, and Amber Ward paint vibrant scenes from the education pickets. ‘I didn’t know that anyone had
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Are These the Glimmers of a Resurgent Student Movement?
Coll McCail detecs solidarity between students and staff that is regenerating a united movement that can face current challenges. Thirteen years
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Erasure Yoga for Striking Workers
Allie Kerper’s erasure poem from the transcript of ‘Yoga for Golfers’ by Yoga with Adriene. The spine is collapsing.We’re gonna unravel
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We’ve Overcome the Mythical Separation Between Workers and Public
Roz Foyer explains why the season of strikes has brought the public into closer connection with the battles of our unions.
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Nourished by Love
Rona Proudfoot describes the Valentine’s letters written for striking posties in Glasgow. I have recently joined a union and found myself
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No Routes Left: Striking for Revival in Rural Scotland
Enas Magzoub finds that local authority decisions in transport and education have increased the burden on underpaid workers. More than half
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Letter from America: New Kinds of Worker Militancy
Peter Frase, New York, February 2023 My last visit to Scotland coincided with May Day 2022, and it’s always a pleasure
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Lettre d’Europe: France’s General Strike
Paul Malgrati, Villars-sur-Ollon, March 2023 France is being stirred by the most significant general strike since the beginning of the twenty-first
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What Home Can Really Mean
Esmond Sage surveilles the situation of renter and tenent organising in the silver city and explores the radical hearth of Union
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Leaving the Jute Mill
James Barrowman reviews a recent exhibition in Dundee, leading us back through the factory gates. The Cooper Gallery’s show Consider Labour
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D. C. Thomson, Logan Roy, and the Tyranny of the Tartan Monster
Charlotte Lauder compares two malign media influences with their roots in Tayside. In Succession, the transatlantic TV show that depicts the
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Jute, Jam and Journalism: When D. C. Thomson Dominated Dundee
When Ellie McDonald’s uncle organised a union at Dundee’s media powerhouse, the bosses blacklisted the family. It never kept them down.
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Scottish Anti-Fascism in 2023
Emma Òr attended the counter-demo to a rally at a hotel in Erskine. ‘Refugees are welcome here’ and ‘Nazi scum off
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Why Hotel Accommodation?
Pinar Aksu reviews the reality that awaits people seeking asylum and refuge in Scotland. At the start of the pandemic and
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What would it take for a Paradigm Shift in Scotland’s Health?
Submitted by the People’s Health Movement (PHM) Scotland ahead of their People’s Health Assembly on 10th June, this article was written
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Migration Experiences, New Scots, and the Limits of Civic Nationalism
Quan Nguyen finds that some wear the label ‘New Scots’ as a badge of honour, but for others it’s less appealing.
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Kinship in our Damaged Land
Iryna Zamuruieva reflects on the devastation wrought upon her native land, and the roots in language and culture that can sustain
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Imperialism by Stealth
Sean Sheehan reviews Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East, by Jonathan Parry (Princeton 2022). Promised Lands begins with
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Vladimir McTavish – A Kick Up the Tabloids
‘At least Liz the Lettuce waited until she had been elected party leader before she pressed the self-destruct button’. I’m currently
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Humanity and Hope
Henry Maitles remembers the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This picture, showing Bundist survivors of the Holocaust on the May Day 1945 demo
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Contents of Issue 133 Online Supplement
This special online issue, supplementing the printed issue 133, features articles submitted to the magazine during its change in editorial staff,
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A New Phase of Politics in Scotland
Editorial introduction to this special online-only issue comprising articles submitted for the Jan-Feb issue of the Scottish Left Review. They say
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Conditions for Change in the Here and Now
Stuart Fairweather surveys three groups campaigning for social transformation in Scotland: ‘In between the action of the unions, largely but not
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A Workers’ Economy from Canteens to Coffins
Clare Peden reports on one union’s campaign for an economy in the hands of workers not profiteers. In September last year,
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Rally Round the Right to Decide
There are better answers to the national question than ‘class versus nation’, argues Frances Curran At the end of November 2022,
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The starting gun for a new independence run?
John Dennis asks: can socialist supporters of independence take the initiative to develop radical policies that allow it to make the
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Our Involuntary Union?
Simon Barrow considers the politics of independence after the Supreme Court verdict and describes a strategy for the SNP to grow
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The multiple morbidities of Scottish democracy
James Mitchell argues that the focus on what would constitute a democratic mandate to negotiate independence has led us to lose
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Private Schools, Rugger, and One of the Boys
Chris Holligan considers what the Registration of Interests by Scottish MSPs reveal about influence as a strategic tool serving political and
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Dickensian Dining
A poem by David McKinstry. In our digital Dickensian days Poor law’s long line, In which with hidden heads They queue
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Building Leverage for a Wealth Levy
Returning to Jimmy Reid’s renowned ‘alienation’ speech, Graham O’Neill reflects on the prospects of wealth tax in Scotland today 50 years
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Loss and Damage: A Short History
Dogged determination resulted in some gains at COP27 but they were few and far between. Ben Wilson explores the origins of
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Tipping Point in Palestine
Chris Sutherland warns that the relentless march of settlements and the dominance of right-wing ultra-religious Zionism points to the prospect of
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Deceived Into War: Film Review
Jackie Bergson reviews Official Secrets (2019). Director: Gavin Hood. Writers: Gavin Hood, Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein Her belief that GCHQ have
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Rising More Slowly?
John Wood reviews Scotland Rising: The Case for Independence by Gerry Hassan (Pluto Press, 2022) Gerry Hassan has made timely and
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On the road of relative decline? Two books on Scotland’s economic prospects
Mike Danson reviews two books on Scotland’s economic prospects: After Brexit. The Economics of Scottish Independence, by Gavin McCrone (Edinburgh: Birlinn,
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Growth in whose interest?
Gordon Morgan reviews Why the West is Failing – Failed Economics and the Rise of the East, by John Mills (Cambridge:
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